Science winners off to Prague

Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all third-year Kinsale Community School students, are having one hell of a year.

Having bested 549 other entries at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition earlier this year, they are jetting off to Prague to compete in the 25th European Young Scientist Finals.

The trio won the BT Award in January with a project that focused on the effects of nitrogen-harvesting bacteria. They demonstrated that adding rhizobia soil bacteria to wheat and barley seeds greatly reduces germination time.